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"Trump Shouldn't Have Those Arguments": Another Indicator They Still Don't Get It
self | 1/23/2017 | LS

Posted on 01/23/2017 3:06:43 PM PST by LS

Listening to the drivebys, and even Rush and Hannity to some extent, tells me that Trump STILL is playing 3D chess while everyone else is watching a Parcheesi match.

The latest is this "fight" over crowd size at the inauguration, or how many people watched it. First, this is unprovable, because no one knows how many people were viewing this on a non-TV screen--Facebook, a phone, iPads, etc. Any REASONABLE person would assume that with the 31 million confirmed watching on TV, and the million present at the event, at last 10 million more watched on alternative media, this was easily the most watched inauguration ever. Of course, the drivebys/fake news media are not reasonable.

So why fight? There are several reasons, and all of them are good.

1) The "Broken Window" form of law enforcement works on journalists. Never let a small lie fester and take root. Attack them on EVERY lie. Make THEM defend their fraud (as, after he got rolling, Spicer did). Bush '43 failed miserably at this, as Karl Rove admitted in his book, calling it the worst mistake of Bush's presidency. Call out the press, every time, all the time.

2) It establishes that there IS another "side to the story" and that fake news cannot be relied upon to provide facts. This is critical---and this part Rush did get---to keeping the troops motivated, fired up, and in the game. This is all important.

3) But going back to Kzir Khan and the "Mexican judge," other arguments that Trump "shouldn't have," both I and Scott Adams at the time wrote that in the long run Trump won these. In Khan's case, it was what was said vs. the image of Khan on stage with a submissive, non-speaking Muslim wife. Believe me, that image stuck with a lot more people than the tiff between Trump and Khan.

Meanwhile, what was Trump doing while that was going on? Retooling his campaign with Bannon and Conway to take it to the next level. While the media was a-buzz with the "controversy," Trump was taking real, practical steps to win.

Now? More of the same. The fake news media is obsessed with crowd size, as Rush puts it, in an attempt to delegitimize Trump by saying he doesn't have "that many" supporters. Meanwhile, what is Trump doing?

Issuing executive orders, cancelling Zero's executive orders, resetting the playing field on almost every issue, all behind the curtain of the "crowd" debate.

I'm reminded of one of the masters of military deception, Robert E. Lee, who would "demonstrate" in front of the Union Army with about 2/3 of his force while Stonewall Jackson was smashing in on a nearly undefended flank with the other 1/3.

I can post this because I know the fake media is too arrogant to admit they are being had and too stupid to change even if they knew it. So, fake news, keep carrying Ashley ("I'm so lonely") Judd and Madonna (long in the tooth is an affront to teeth!), while Trump completely "transforms" the government. That's it. Just keep those cameras pointed at Katy Perry's, er, ... points.


TOPICS: Issues
KEYWORDS: first100days; inauguration; spicer; trump; trump45; trumpmedia
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1 posted on 01/23/2017 3:06:43 PM PST by LS
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To: LS

It is a rather small issue. The dishonesty of the media regarding crowd sizes is well established. There are many more pressing things to talk about.


2 posted on 01/23/2017 3:08:59 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: LS

Trump’s running circles around them.


3 posted on 01/23/2017 3:11:16 PM PST by conservativepoet
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To: LS

SPOT ON AND THEN SOME!


4 posted on 01/23/2017 3:11:32 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LS
It was a WORK day and rain was predicted.

Work Day

Work Day

Work Day

My daughter taped it.

5 posted on 01/23/2017 3:13:02 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: LS

I saw it reported somewhere that the tallies of the 5 largest livestream came to 21 million.


6 posted on 01/23/2017 3:13:59 PM PST by Valpal1 (I am enjoying the lamentations of their girly-men on social media.)
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To: TBP

No, there aren’t. There are more pressing things TO DO.

You’re still not getting it. Talking about x while DOING y keeps the Alinskyite focus off of Y and onto x.


7 posted on 01/23/2017 3:15:22 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

” First, this is unprovable, because no one knows how many people were viewing this on a non-TV screen—Facebook, a phone, iPads, etc. Any REASONABLE person would assume that with the 31 million confirmed watching on TV, and the million present at the event, at last 10 million more watched on alternative media, this was easily the most watched inauguration ever. Of course, the drivebys/fake news media are not reasonable.”

Actually, we can know EXACTLY how many people were watching it with these methods.

Those figures, however, will be given out by Youtube, Google and MSN/Bing. They will be given to the AP and Reuters,

And you can clearly see where data goes to die.


8 posted on 01/23/2017 3:16:09 PM PST by Celerity
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CNN’s Jeff “There’s a Zucker Born Every Minute” Zucker threatened Trump by saying Trump isn’t aware that only one English language news channel is available throughout the rest of the world and it is “us”.

Ignoring for the moment the huge explosion in internet access and alternate media, Zucker’s words could be seen to say “If you don’t stop calling out our lies, we’re going to keep lying for Putin, China, Japan, Iran, etc. and all the world to hear.”

In other words, truth is not as important to a news channel president as spinning events to characterize Trump as Hitler, Stalin, etc. Got that? Is getting back at Trump worth further discrediting themselves over? I guess so, to hear Zucker speak.


9 posted on 01/23/2017 3:16:37 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: LS

Wonder when the press will realize they are part of the swamp Trump promised to drain.


10 posted on 01/23/2017 3:17:04 PM PST by Amntn ("The only special interest not being served by our government is the American people" - Donald Trump)
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To: LS

Rule of thumb, if the media is reporting a negative story on Trump (when are they ever positive ?), it’s a lie until proven otherwise.


11 posted on 01/23/2017 3:17:15 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: LS

Exactly right, every small lie called out. After a year or so, they will realize that there’s no point to lying - it just makes them look stupid. Broken window is a great example, also tagging. Combat every instance.


12 posted on 01/23/2017 3:17:41 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: LS

This is excellent analysis. Thanks for posting.


13 posted on 01/23/2017 3:17:59 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: TBP
It establishes that there IS another “side to the story” and that fake news cannot be relied upon to provide facts. This is critical-—and this part Rush did get-—to keeping the troops motivated, fired up, and in the game. This is all important.

This is critical to me. I remember Dubya’s endless silence. We would defend him, as best we could, and he would say nothing or else take the Democrat side opposite us!!

I want to fight fight fight every single thing the media says until the first response we have to the media is ‘they must be lying again’.

Plus, this numbers fight took time away from those nasty women on the Mall and their potty mouths.

14 posted on 01/23/2017 3:18:12 PM PST by donna ('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: LS

Someone on Fox said it was something Trump’s people focused on to dilute media attention on the women’s march.


15 posted on 01/23/2017 3:18:15 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: LS

“The “Broken Window” form of law enforcement works on journalists.”

Good analogy.


16 posted on 01/23/2017 3:18:54 PM PST by lacrew
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To: TBP

I agree with Larry. Whether the issue is big or small, call out the media. It’s long overdue.


17 posted on 01/23/2017 3:20:37 PM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: TBP
I disagree completely. The fact that crowd size was the first thing the press latched onto revealed how much they valued that avenue of attack.

The Left is all about death by a thousand cuts. These "small things" are part of their strategy and they will never, ever relent nor will they give one inch. Neither should President Trump. As far as I'm concerned the Left is cut from the same cloth as radical Islam. They must be destroyed down to the root.

18 posted on 01/23/2017 3:21:15 PM PST by Sisku Hanne (All you have to do is the next right thing.)
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To: LS

Trump’s inauguration broke live video streaming records
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3516719/posts


19 posted on 01/23/2017 3:22:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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WINNING - He WARNED us about ALL of the WINNING!!!!


20 posted on 01/23/2017 3:25:57 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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